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• I have been blowing past the majority of my opponents, so people get the impression of me as an attacking, body punching, and brawler type. I do like to put the pressure on, but I have very underrated boxing skills. I have won nine amateur titles. I had 80 amateur fights, and won 76 if them. You do not get that kind of record without having talent. The good thing is I have not really needed all my talent yet. When I get an opportunity to show that talent, people will start taking me more seriously.

  Ricky Hatton

  Fighting, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I heard friends and strangers saying, "You don't look Arab - what are you supposed to be?" It really is a tired old problem for children of immigrants and kids of mixed race, constantly trying to explain yourself. Eventually, you give up and say, "Okay, what do you think I am?" When you're in the midst of it, you come to understand that "race" is a loose social construct, a series of visual impressions, and that your identity can be whatever the hell crazy thing you want it to be, you just have to grow a sense of humor and cultivate selective deafness.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Children, Giving Up, Crazy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The law in Russia bans "propaganda of homosexuality," which is defined as dissemination of information that can cause harm to the spiritual or physical development of children, including forming in them the erroneous impression of the social equality of traditional and nontraditional sexual relations. It's a law that actually enshrines second-class citizenship - it makes it a crime to claim social equality.

  Masha Gessen

  Spiritual, Children, Citizenship

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• I always have to have a fragrance on. I have to wear a fragrance before I go anywhere. For me, scent is everything. It's a first impression. I love it when people tell me I'm smelling good and ask what I'm wearing. For me, it gives me that extra confidence and makes me feel grown.

  Karrueche Tran

  People, Giving, First Impression

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• When I first started doing stuff outside of Hot Chip, I got the impression that Joe Goddard was a bit concerned. But I said, "I really want to record these songs quickly and not turn them into dance music." And he was fairly supportive - maybe not wholly supportive. But then you learn that no one's about to quit the band, so it seems good and healthy.

  Alexis Taylor

  Song, Healthy, Supportive

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• It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

  Alan Alda

  Trying, Looks, Stories

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• Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Science, Perception

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• Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

  Joseph Barbera

  Disappointment, California, Despair

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Men, Making Love, Would Be

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• A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

  Saul Bellow

  Novel, Multitudes, Balanced

  Speech on receiving the Nobel Prize, 1976

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• The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Uncles, Father, Men

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• Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

  William Bernbach

  Running, Business, Numbers

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• Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

  Ken Burns

  Past, Historical, Survival

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• Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

  Jeb Bush

  Campaigns, Lasting Impressions, Voters

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• If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

  Jim Carrey

  House, Would Be, Sitting

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• I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Strong, School, Directors

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• I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.

  Lee Child

  Thinking, Years, America

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• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  Kate Chopin

  Memorable, Water, People

  Kate Chopin (2005). “The Awakening - Literary Touchstone”, p.142, Prestwick House Inc

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• One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

  Eric Clapton

  Summer, Hollies, Berries

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• The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

  Quentin Crisp

  Want, British, Crisps

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• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Mistake, Simple, People

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• I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

  Jack Dee

  Long, People, House

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• I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Women, May, Too Much

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (1891). Holmes enigmatically distrusts women yet values their judgment.

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• The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Drawing, People, First Impression

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• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Happiness, Freedom

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.393, 谷月社

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